There's no need to be smart about it. It just wasted 80 x 10 mins = 13 hours of company time that could have been spent improving outcomes for customers and sha

There's no need to be smart about it. It just wasted 80 x 10 mins = 13 hours of company time that could have been spent improving outcomes for customers and shareholders. It also brought politics into the office and annoyed a lot of people so while it might make life ever so slightly less ambiguous, it probably had a net loss in cost-benefit terms. And although it's just one example, it seems reflective of the practice more broadly in being cost-benefit negative.